Privileging the Participant
The Importance of Sub-Group Analysis in Social Welfare Evaluations
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12470649 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Christina M Gibson (0000-0002-4857-9125, Duke University), Christina Gibson (Duke University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 443-469 |
| Publication date | 2003-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Evaluation (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1098-2140 • E-ISSN: 1557-0878 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/109821400302400403 |
| OpenAlex | W1995464326 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 20 |
| References cited | 44 |
This paper analyzes how variation in participant take-up rates affected the impacts of the New Hope project, a random-assignment, anti-poverty program. New Hope offered experimental members four benefits—child care subsidies, wage subsidies, health insurance, and, if needed, a temporary community service job—that were available to families working full time. Take-up of the benefits was far from universal and experimental participants who used one of the benefits rarely used all of them. Clustering and propensity score methods are used to analyze take-up sub-groups and to estimate program impacts within each. The majority of take-up patterns adopted by experimental members were associated with at least one positive program impact. However, the primary beneficiaries were those parents who used the community service jobs. They increased their employment effort, felt less parenting stress, and had children with higher teacher-related academic accomplishment scores. The implication of this method for the evaluation of other multi-benefit programs is discussed
Actuarial science · Business · Demographic economics · Economic growth · Economics · Impact evaluation · Labour economics · Political science · Poverty · Program evaluation · Propensity score matching · Public economics · Random assignment · Service (business · Social Welfare · Subsidized housing · Subsidy · Wage · Welfare · Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics · Medicine · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare · Psychology · Public Administration · Social Work · Marketing
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How Does Public Assistance Affect Family Expenditures? The Case of Urban China
Dosage Effects on School Readiness
Head Start and urban children's school readiness
Attitudes toward Out-of-Home Care over 18 Months
Cased-based modelling and scenario simulation for ex-post evaluation
On Analysis of Symmetrically Predicted Endogenous Subgroups
Conditions for Effective Application of Analysis of Symmetrically-Predicted Endogenous Subgroups
On Overfitting in Analysis of Symmetrically Predicted Endogenous Subgroups From Randomized Experimental Samples
Using Symmetric Prediction of Endogenous Subgroups for Causal Inferences About Program Effects Under Robust Assumptions
Analyzing the Influence of Dosage in Social Experiments With Application to the Supporting Healthy Marriage Program
What Are the Effects of Welfare Sanction Policies? Or, Using Propensity Scores as a Subgroup Indicator to Learn More From Social Experiments
Academic performance of subsequent schools and impacts of early interventions
Estimating the effects of Head Start on parenting and child maltreatment
The effects of multiple welfare program participatifon on educational expenditures and time use
Developmental Psychology and Public Policy
Food Well-Being in Older Adults
Public Assistance, Economic Prospect, and Happiness in Urban China
Patterns of Single Mothers' Work and Welfare Use
Parenting among Low-Income, African American Single Mothers with Preschool-Age Children
Estimation of Average Treatment Effects Based on Propensity Scores
Work-Based Antipoverty Programs for Parents Can Enhance the School Performance and Social Behavior of Children
Matching As An Econometric Evaluation Estimator
Full Report of the Prevalence, Incidence, and Consequences of Violence Against Women
Accounting for No-Shows in Experimental Evaluation Designs
Reducing Bias in Observational Studies Using Subclassification on the Propensity Score
Causal Effects in Nonexperimental Studies
Matching As An Econometric Evaluation Estimator
Constructing a Control Group Using Multivariate Matched Sampling Methods That Incorporate the Propensity Score
Work and Family in the 1990s
Moving to Opportunity in Boston
Single Mothers in Low-Wage Jobs
The Impact of Economic Hardship on Black Families and Children
Propensity Score-Matching Methods for Nonexperimental Causal Studies
Are Experiments the Only Option? A Look at Dropout Prevention Programs
“Rational” and Ecocultural Circumstances of Program Take-Up Among Low-Income Working Parents
Subgroup Analysis in Social Experiments
Subgroup Analysis in Social Experiments
It takes a nation
Moving Up, Moving Out, or Going Nowhere? A Study of the Employment Patterns of Young Women and the Implications for Welfare Mothers
Consequences of growing up poor
The mechanisms mediating the effects of poverty on children’s intellectual development
Early child-care selection
Social network and marital support as mediators and moderators of the impact of stress and depression on parental behavior
Socioeconomic status and health
Development and validation of the State Hope Scale
Economic Deprivation and Early Childhood Development
How Much Does Childhood Poverty Affect the Life Chances of Children
Life after Welfare
Social and Emotional Adjustment and Family Relations in Ethnic Minority Families
Trends in cohabitation and implications for children s family contexts in the United States
Economic Well-Being Following an Exit from Aid to Families with Dependent Children
Families in Poverty in the 1990s
Early Parental Work, Family Social Capital, and Early Childhood Outcomes
| Unique citing works | 20 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,95 |
| Citation span | 2005 - 2026 (22) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 20 |